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Bottleneck: little jobs and emotional friction

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 22nd July 201921st July 2019

Thanks to JG. A particularly troublesome breed of little job are things left undone that hold up the work of other people – a decision… Read More »Bottleneck: little jobs and emotional friction

Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 16th July 201917th July 2019

Mental Overhead Another type of friction we experience is from the ongoing mental overhead of having too many balls in the air. Unfinished projects, unanswered… Read More »Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread

Friction (3): when friction helps

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 21st June 201921st June 2019

Friction in the wrong places slows us down and drains our energy, but it has its uses: Friction in processes or emotional friction it’s often… Read More »Friction (3): when friction helps

Friction (2): emotional friction

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 19th June 201919th June 2019

This is a different kind of friction: the uncertainty, delay and discomfort that comes from lack of trust or understanding. Like bureaucratic or procedural friction,… Read More »Friction (2): emotional friction

Friction (1): costs to convenience

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 18th June 201919th June 2019

Friction is anything that makes it harder to for us to get something done – buy a product or use a service, do our jobs,… Read More »Friction (1): costs to convenience

Organisational friction

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 6th December 20186th December 2018

is caused by things in your working day that you live with or work around but that sap your time, energy or attention and make… Read More »Organisational friction

That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 8th April 20226th April 2022

QUEEN GERTRUDEGood Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.Do not for ever with thy vailed lidsSeek for… Read More »That Within Which Passeth Show (on Isomorphic Mimicry)

Crap Arising; or, Catch It

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 2nd March 20222nd March 2022

A neighbourhood cat has been leaving unwelcome deposits on our porch with impressive (and elusive) regularity. You can’t let things like this bother you: dealing… Read More »Crap Arising; or, Catch It

A Hole in the Heart

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 7th December 20217th December 2021
  • 1 Comment

Your organisation can live for a long time with deep cultural problems: broken attitudes to people, to the work, to the people you’re trying to… Read More »A Hole in the Heart

Aeroplane; or, Business and Pleasure

  • by Stuart Patience
  • 8th November 20217th November 2021
  • 1 Comment

I like pleasure spiked with painAnd music is my aeroplaneIt’s my aeroplaneSongbird sweet and sour JaneAnd music is my aeroplaneIt’s my aeroplane Red Hot Chili… Read More »Aeroplane; or, Business and Pleasure

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